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He used the Vox during the Perfect Strangers tour (I saw it myself at the stage in Barcelona, 1985) but not at the Made in Japan or Made in Europe tours.
I am wondering how he gets the clean tone at the intro of Mistreated - Made in Europe. My two strats (American Deluxe with Fat'50/SSL-5 and Schecter NJ with Seymour Duncan Antiquity Texas Hot) sound very thin when I roll down the volume pot too much.
Rolling down the vol pot?
Runing the Major quite clean, and pushing it with a Booster to get the overdrive tone?
A mixture of both?
It seems like at the Made in Europe tour he replaced the Treble Booster with the Akai tape.
"Ritchie in April 1974 at Ontario speedway / California jam From December 1973, at the beginning of the “Burn”-Tour in Northern Europe, Ritchie used a partly new live setup: the preamp of his Marshall Major amps were now modified, the treble boosters were retired and replaced with his famous AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel recorder"
https://www.treblebooster.net/bsm-tonezone/ritchie-blackmore
Did he had a switch to bypass the Akai for the clean tones?
At the Axe-FX we have several options to switch from overdrive to nice clean tones without the need to rolldown the guitar volume too much, but I am curious to know how he did it with the Marshall Major.
I am wondering how he gets the clean tone at the intro of Mistreated - Made in Europe. My two strats (American Deluxe with Fat'50/SSL-5 and Schecter NJ with Seymour Duncan Antiquity Texas Hot) sound very thin when I roll down the volume pot too much.
Rolling down the vol pot?
Runing the Major quite clean, and pushing it with a Booster to get the overdrive tone?
A mixture of both?
It seems like at the Made in Europe tour he replaced the Treble Booster with the Akai tape.
"Ritchie in April 1974 at Ontario speedway / California jam From December 1973, at the beginning of the “Burn”-Tour in Northern Europe, Ritchie used a partly new live setup: the preamp of his Marshall Major amps were now modified, the treble boosters were retired and replaced with his famous AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel recorder"
https://www.treblebooster.net/bsm-tonezone/ritchie-blackmore
Did he had a switch to bypass the Akai for the clean tones?
At the Axe-FX we have several options to switch from overdrive to nice clean tones without the need to rolldown the guitar volume too much, but I am curious to know how he did it with the Marshall Major.
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